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NEWS
| October 22, 2003
Tuition and Fees
Liberal Arts fees receive support
The proposals will go to the interim
provost next.
By Kate
Bolen
The Shorthorn staff
Some students and faculty favor more than 100 fee increases for
the College of Liberal Arts, 60 of which are for the Music Department.
Twenty students and faculty met with Beth Wright, interim liberal
arts dean, Tuesday during the dean’s fee forum to discuss
the increases. The Liberal Arts Constituency Council sponsored the
forum.
Department chairs proposed the fee increases earlier this semester.
Dr. Wright said that because students at the forum favored the fees,
she will submit them to interim Provost Dana Dunn for approval in
early November.
Art and Art History, English, Linguistics, Music, Sociology and
Anthropology courses will see new and increased fees if Dr. Dunn
approves them.
Music Chairman Larry Wiley said the department suggested multiple
fee increases because each ensemble will request money individually
for the first time.
“The majority of the fees are incidental, meaning all of the
fees will come back to the department and will not be spent elsewhere,”
Dr. Wiley said. “Students won’t have to worry about
their money disappearing.”
Theatre Arts may have significant increases, Wright said. Proposals
to increase existing fees would give the department more money to
spend on set design, lighting and make-up.
Theatre performance junior Eric Wilder said he understands the fee
increases.
“When it comes to the theater, the increase is necessary,”
Wilder said. “The fees will provide students with supplies
needed for a hands-on experience rather than just learning about
it in theory.”
Wright said fee increases have nothing to do with a pending tuition
increase expected in spring. She said the cost of materials used
in the college has changed over the years, and fees must increase
to pay for them.
English 1301, for example, will increase its fee from $2 to $3,
she said. Students have previously purchased workbooks and materials
for the course. Now, the cost of those materials will be included
in class fees.
Dr. Dunn, also vice president for academic affairs, said deans were
not prohibited from increasing fees.
“The deans were told to carefully scrutinize any fee increase
that was brought forward and consider them in the likelihood that
there will be an increase in tuition,” Dr. Dunn said.
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